[Matplotlib-users] Re: figure text

[John H. <jdh...@ac...>]

>>>>> "Charles" == Charles Twardy <ct...@ma...> writes:

    Charles> Hi John, The latest CVS changes seem to help! The new
    Charles> deprecations are gone, and my own title works on center
    Charles> justify.

    Charles> But if I try an absurdly long title: gcf().text(0.5,
    Charles> 0.95,'Distance Histograms by Category is a really long
    Charles> title that should flow off', font, fontsize=12)

    Charles> Then I get an X Window Error and my script crashes. Most
    Charles> ungraceful.

Yes, most.  Are you sure you are using the right version?  Does line
1702 of figure.py read

        def clip_gc(gc):
            gc.set_clip_rectangle( (0, 0, self.width, self.height) )
        for t in self._text:
            t.clip_gc = clip_gc

I also tested with a ridiculously long figure title and did not get
the X windows crash after making these changes .  CVS should have
this, but as you've noted, sometimes the mirrors are a little behind.
If you have this and are still getting the crashes, let me know and
I'll sort it out.

    Charles> For fun, I've attached the .pngs I've been working
    Charles> on. Lost-person behavior: distance travelled and outcome
    Charles> of the search, broken down by major
    Charles> categories. (Australian data)

That's great.  Unfortunately I can't look at them right now because
I'm logged in remotely from a win32 machine but will check them out
Monday.  If you'd like to send a script, I can add one of them to the
screenshots section of the home page.

JDH